[MUSIC] Hello, this is module eight of

Mechanics of Materials Part I. Today's learning outcome is to define and discuss

something which we're
gonna call normal strain. And so again, here's that axial
test that I showed before of a specimen being stretched
by an axial force. The length becomes longer,
it's sum L plus delta, and so we talk about strain as being
the elongation per unit length and it's given the symbol epsilon and so it's
that delta, that stretch over the length. And it's dimensionless. We often talk
about it being
as millimeters per millimeter. Or maybe inches per inch in
the English unit system, but it's actually dimensionless because the
millimeters per millimeter cancels out. The sign convention again, a positive te
nsion force
causes a positive elongation. And a negative or a compressive force causes a sho
rtening
and that's a negative strain. And so that's our sign convention. And here we go
again. Similar to stresses now, we talk about
normal strain, or engineering strain. That's what we use in most
problems that we're gonna solve. It's based on the initial
length of our specimen. The specimen will get slightly larger. For most material
s it's
quite a small amount. And so if we were to use the actual
length as it stretches out, that would be true strain, and therefore
the strain would be a little bit smaller because the length would be larger. And
so now we have the basic
concepts of stress and strain fundamental to the understanding
of mechanics and materials. I've got another worksheet for you, we're
gonna take another flat steel alloy bar. It's got an initial length of 900 mm. W
e're gonna subject it
to a tensile load and we're gonna say that the bar
elongates by 0.5 mm and I want you to determine the nominal, or
engineering axial strain in the bar. And again I've included
the solution in the worksheet. And when you finish it, you'll be
all set and I'll see you next time. [SOUND]
[MUSIC] Hello and welcome to Module one
of Mechanics of Materials Part 1. Today's learning outcomes are to describe
the importance of studying this topic of Mechanics of Materials. To outline the
general analysis
approach we'll take in the course. And to list the major
topics in the course. So lets begin by reminding ourselves
what engineering mechanics or engineering science is. And I've talked about this
before,
we start with math, physics and basic science, or
how the physical world works. And then the engineering mechanics,
engineering science coursework takes us and
bridges us to applications in engineering. Mechanical engineering,
civil engineering, perhaps aerospace or material science engineering or
any engineering discipline field. And so that's an application of
the science, to fulfill a human need. Okay and looking at engineering mechanics,
we started with the assumption that
we were working with ridged bodies. In my, first two courses, we looked at
static equilibrium and we had the courses Introduction to Engineering Mechanics
and
Applications in Engineering Mechanics. And then later, we looked at those rigid
bodies
undergoing motion in dynamics courses. And we looked at two dimensional
dynamics and three dimensional dynamics. And in this course we're now going
to change our assumption, and instead of working with rigid bodies,
we're gonna say that these bodies can deform, and

this is our Mechanics of Materials course. So this is the general analysis

approach that we'll take in the course. Mechanics of Materials is the foundation
for all structural and machine design. And so we start with some engineering
structure, whether it be as large as a building, or a dam, or
as small as a part in a mechanical device. And then, we're going to apply
some external loading to it. And that loading may take the from
of axial forces, or torsional or twisting loads, perhaps bending loads, or
some combination of all of those loads. And those are going to
create internal forces and moments, in our structural member. And we're gonna lo
ok at something which
we're gonna define as stress and strains. And finally, we'll look at the structu
ral
performance based on that analysis. And by structural performance, I mean,
is my structure, for instance, maybe deforming or deflecting too much. Is it mee
ting our
specifications in that regard? Is it yielding? Is there a possibility of fractur
e? Ultimately we wanna make sure
that our engineering structure is performing successful and not failing. And so
in this course we have
a number of fundamental topics, that we're going to go through. And you can see
that we start with
stresses and strains, and again in this first course, Mechanics and Materials Pa
rt
1, we're gonna focus on axial loading. Then we look at mechanical
behavior of materials. And finally,
towards the end of the course, we start looking at factors of safety,
allowable stresses and strains. And we'll look at some cases of axial
loading for nonlinear behavior, what we call statically indeterminate structures
,
and thermal and pre-strain effects. That will be the end of
this Part one course, as far as fundamentals is concerned. And then my second co
urse,
Mechanics of Materials Part II will look at torsional type loads and
thin-walled pressure vessels. And then we'll go on to beam bending in
the third course in the four part series. And then finally in the last part
we'll look at beam curvature, we'll look at beam deflections, and
statically indeterminate beams, column buckling,
some more advanced topics. My emphasis throughout these courses
will be understanding the principles of mechanics of materials rather than
extensive computational or computer work. Obviously computers and
computational programs and software are used a lot in
these types of problems. But I want you to have a strong foundation
and understanding of the concepts. And so, let's get started. [MUSIC]